Hacker News: yingliu4203

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video]"

yingliu4203 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 05:01:20 +0000

Both are the best videos in NN and LLM. Your kindness is highly appreciated.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Error Handling Patterns"

yingliu4203 — Thu, 04 May 2023 16:42:27 +0000

Agree, many practical insights in the system programming domain -- the domain is important for any discussion. For example, the unchecked exception pattern is a good choice for business applications.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Ask HN: Is it worth learning C# and .NET in 2022?"

yingliu4203 — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 20:56:17 +0000

Yes. C# is the best OO programming language with good support for functional and procedural programming paradigms. For business applications, it is the best programming language that can be used in both frontend/GUI (MAUI) and backend.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "The Battle of Snake Island"

yingliu4203 — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 03:49:06 +0000

So sad to read a story like this. Salute to heroes.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "An introduction to type programming in TypeScript"

yingliu4203 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 05:57:36 +0000

It's eye-opening to know the Turing completeness of TypeScript' type programming. It is fun and insightful to know this fact. The examples are simple and to the point.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1"

yingliu4203 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:50:38 +0000

I believe the key issue of debate is that people ignored the context: "Many people, including myself, believe that the individual should be able to own their own identity."

The cryptocurrency and decentralization are possible because some people believe and live on those ideas. For those who don't care, bitcoin is $0 or worse: a Ponzi scheme. For those who believe in it, the goal is to own one's id, data and money, and collaborate without a big company or a central government.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Show HN: Futurecoder – A free online interactive Python course"

yingliu4203 — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 04:25:20 +0000

Is it possible to use VS Code as editor? It will be a wonderful experience.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Some newer HP printers will not print or scan without an HP Smart account"

yingliu4203 — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:21:14 +0000

I have used HP printers for many years. The software is consistently the worst you can image: it has huge size for so many years and is complex to use.

Last week I struggled awhile to not create an account to scan a document. Eventually I gave up and create an account.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "A History of Clojure [video]"

yingliu4203 — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 20:57:25 +0000

It is fun to compare the histories of Clojure, Scala and F#. A pragmatic programmer created Clojure. A university professor created Scala. A research team from Microsoft created F#. Each language is characterized by its creator(s).

New comment by yingliu4203 in "In Search Of: Simpson's Paradox"

yingliu4203 — Sat, 29 May 2021 17:04:55 +0000

Probably a typo in the 2nd point below "why average support for gun control increases as a function of prayer:", the "low-prayer groups are mostly female" should be "The high-prayer groups are most female".

- The high-prayer groups are mostly female, so the overall average is closer to the female response, which is higher.

Next Web

yingliu4203 — Sat, 01 May 2021 00:44:29 +0000

Article URL: https://stopa.io/post/279

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27001659

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Docker as an Integrated Development Environment (2019)"

yingliu4203 — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 14:54:29 +0000

anybody has experience with VS Code inside Container? the feature https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers looks nice.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Stunningly Surreal Bookstore in China"

yingliu4203 — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:23:13 +0000

Beautiful design. Want to read inside.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Bootstrap 5 Alpha 3"

yingliu4203 — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:59:14 +0000

An alternative is [Bulma](https://bulma.io/) that has the similar components but simpler and easier to learn.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Dark’s new backend will be in F#"

yingliu4203 — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 06:24:40 +0000

He didn't list Clojure(Script) in programing languages in his CV (both significant experience and others) https://paulbiggar.com/paulbiggar.pdf

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube"

yingliu4203 — Mon, 18 May 2020 15:38:40 +0000

Google is becoming another wechat, one or two words a time. The stages are: - ban one or more words - lock your account - control the visibility of your speech - report your actions to Chinese government - ...

New comment by yingliu4203 in "We Chat, They Watch"

yingliu4203 — Fri, 08 May 2020 02:02:27 +0000

Many Chinese-Americans have no choice when they need to communicate with family and friend living in China. No outside communication tools allowed in China.

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Hands-on Scala Programming"

yingliu4203 — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:51:14 +0000

Ligthbend is behind the Akka and Lagom

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Hands-on Scala Programming"

yingliu4203 — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:50:26 +0000

Haskell is not for every Joe working on ERP projects

New comment by yingliu4203 in "Hands-on Scala Programming"

yingliu4203 — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 18:13:00 +0000

Haoyi is an amazing guy. Last night at 8pm and 2pm this morning I submitted two PR to the Mill, he merged within one hour. In about 7 years, he helped to create an eco-system around Scala:

- REPL (ammonite)

- build tool (mill)

- JSON serializer(uPickle)

- web framework (cask)

- test framework(uTest)

- http client lib (requests-scala)

- HTML tag lib (scalatags)

- parser(fast parse)

Scala development and tool can be divided into four categories

- Java (OO): wrong idea for many developers. Use Kotlin if you like OO.

- Haskell (pure FP, even HKT): good for fun but not for profit. Use Haskell for pure FP.

- Erlang (Actors): fibers are better. Use Clojure if you like Actors.

- Easy: practical FP, the above tools from Haoyi. Use them if you program in Scala

I'd guess all is done after work. Please support him to make Scala better: https://www.patreon.com/join/lihaoyi